12 months ago this was the sort of garbage we were reading in the paper...19/11/2009.
One day later, climategate came out. The rest is history.
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Funny, i dont hear anyone talking about anything other than deep freeze in the media now, despite GISS' laughable attempt at making 2010 the hottest year ever.
World temperatures to rise by 6C by end of the century, scientists say Charles Miranda From: Herald Sun November 19, 2009 10:02AM 24
THE world is spinning toward a catastrophic worst case climate change scenario with temperatures
now certain to rise by 6 degrees by the end of the century.
That's the view of a leading international team of scientists who yesterday predicted the change in climate would now certainly have irreversible consequences rendering large parts of the globe inhabitable.
The scenario was first made public by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007 but then it was made only as a worst case scenario.
But according to Professor Corinne Le Quere from the British Antarctic Survey and East Anglia University, that worst case was now all but inevitable.
"We're at the top of the IPCC scenario," she told Nature Geoscience.
Her study - backed by 31 top researchers from seven countries including
Australia involved in the Global Carbon Project - found there had been a 29 per cent rise in global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels between 2000 and 2008, with an annual increase of 3 per cent compared with 1 per cent the previous eight years.
She said there was no doubt carbon dioxide emissions from transport and industry and deforestation were squarely to blame for warming the atmosphere which would be 6 per cent higher around the world including near the poles; the EU had hoped to keep the rise to 2 per cent.
Prof Le Quere said next month's UN climate conference in Copenhagen had to come out with a clear and decisive global policy to stabilize temperatures.
"If the agreement is too weak or the commitments not respected, it is not 2.5 degrees or 3 degrees we will get it's 5 degrees or 6 degrees, that is the path we're on," she said.
Scientists have found there was now significant evidence to show for the first time the Earth's natural ability to absorb man-made carbon dioxide released into the air had failed.
Both the US and China, the world's biggest carbon emitters, have pledged to strike an accord for emission-reduction targets for rich nations.